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- catalogue: van Woerden
about 1973
- Vest original photos:
about 1983
- archive emails:
Hugo en Marius van Woerden
- present and past:
Hugo en Marius van Woerden
| sticker name |
clay red black white |
bottom mould line |
way of numbering |
decor glaze |
other factories |
Some factories have made glazes that resemble those of Vest. These glazes are below. There is also information about the glazes on the inside.
Pay attention. The same glaze does not always look exactly the same. For some, the result is unpredictable.
Click for an overview of all decors / glazes of Vest on "decors: glazes" in the left menu.
decor Van Gogh or Negro and Prosman  |
Decor Van Gogh was called Negro until 1973. It is the best known and the most common decor.
Prosman made a glaze that is very similar to Negro. He used the recipes he had received from Hugo van Woerden.
The results were different because the glaze layer was thinner. There are also many cracked bubbles.
| decor Van Gogh or Negro and Jopeko |
The German factory Jopeko has also made a glaze that is very similar to Negro. The difference is very small.
Jopeko also made similar models. Yet there are differences that make identification possible. To do this, click on "other factories" in the menu bar at the top.
The glaze of Jopeko was called Alaska. It was often used in combination with glossy green and orange glazes. These combinations do not occur at Vest.
| decor "sang de boeuf" at Vest and Ravelli |
The glaze sang-de-boeuf is a deep red copper glaze that was developed in China. Ravelli claimed he was the only one who could make that. However, the Woerden brothers have proven that they could do it too.
At the Fleurbeurs in Utrecht they had more models with this glaze than Ravelli.
(photo: Hugo van Woerden)
The red copper glaze was also combined by Vest with an overspray of the same glaze with titanium dioxide. This added a blue glaze.
Ravelli vases are usually marked on the bottom.
| decor Turkish or Egyptian blue at Vest and Groeneveldt |
Groeneveldt also claimed that he was the only one who could make a certain blue-green foam glaze. At van Woerden, however, they made a foam glaze with the same color.
The two vases on the right are made by Vest.
Vases from Groeneveldt with this glaze are easy to recognize. They are not cast but turned. They are usually marked with a stamp on the bottom
| glazes on the inside |
The glaze on the inside is very varied at old van Woerden vases. All the inside glazes were shiny.
In the Vest period the inner glaze was first dark brown. Later on Vest switched to a glaze that was translucent and therefore it had the color of the white clay. Both glazes were used interchangeably for a fairly long period. In recent years, however only the translucent (white) glaze was used.
The photo on the right shows examples of the glazes used by Vest. The lower four are very common. The top three are from older vases.
| sticker name |
clay red black white |
bottom mould line |
way of numbering |
decor glaze |
other factories |